{"id":29442,"date":"2022-02-15T09:39:30","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T14:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/?p=29442"},"modified":"2022-02-15T09:39:31","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T14:39:31","slug":"the-texas-oil-heir-who-took-on-maths-impossible-dare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/?p=29442","title":{"rendered":"The Texas Oil Heir Who Took On Math\u2019s Impossible Dare"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/01\/31\/science\/james-vaughn-fermat-theorem.html?smid=tw-share\">The Texas Oil Heir Who Took On Math\u2019s Impossible Dare<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">An interesting story by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WilliamJBroad?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WilliamJBroad<\/a> (a science writer I always enjoy reading). It&#39;s about a patron of pure mathematics who was fascinated by Fermat&#39;s Last Theorem, and who supported people and conferences that played a part in its solution.  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YcjL0IJRRy\">https:\/\/t.co\/YcjL0IJRRy<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Steven Strogatz (@stevenstrogatz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stevenstrogatz\/status\/1488289907437092865?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 31, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas Oil Heir Who Took On Math\u2019s Impossible Dare<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economie","category-mathematiques"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29443,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29442\/revisions\/29443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}